Baker-Horn Added to Bellator 30

WEC veteran Bryan Baker
will face perennial competitor Jeremy Horn in
a featured middleweight bout at Bellator 30 on Sept. 23 at Fourth
Street Live in Louisville, Ky., the promotion announced on
Tuesday.

Baker hasn’t competed since his first-round defeat to Alexander
Shlemenko in the promotion’s season two middleweight tournament
finals last June. The 25-year-old Californian notched consecutive
first-round wins against Sean
Loeffler and Eric
Schambari en route to the final round against the formidable
Russian striker. Baker’s only other defeat came at the hands of UFC
middleweight contender Chael Sonnen
at WEC 33 in March 2008.

Horn boasts one of the more substantial fighting careers on record,
with over 100 bouts recorded since his debut in March 1996. The
35-year-old Miletich Fighting Systems graduate has graced
promotions spanning the globe in the process, including 13 Octagon
appearances dating back to his promotional debut against Frank
Shamrock at UFC 17 in May 1998.

Horn, who now resides and teaches at his Elite Performance gym in
Salt Lake City, Utah, will carry a six-fight win streak into his
bout against Baker.